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New Technology Tools
From last week:

For this week:

Concluding Assignment
This is an assignment in a format of your choice (essay, blog post, podcast, video, etc.). You will need to address either (1) your answers to the essential questions of the course:
  1. What do we mean by the "21st century classroom?" There are a variety of answers to this question, but few get at the transformation in teaching and learning that can be brought about by the shifts that are happening in our world today.
  2. How do we apply technology tools in ways so that we can more easily achieve meaningful teaching and learning in the 21st century? Our focus on technology in education rarely gets beyond the dimension of technical skill. Education professionals must have additional skills to be able to evaluate emerging and every-evolving technology tools and determine how they will meet the needs of the 21st century learner.

OR:

(2) your growth over the course as related to the ISTE Standards for teachers.
  1. Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
  2. Design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments
  3. Model digital age learning and work
  4. Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility
  5. Engage in professional growth and leadership

As with all of your work in this course, reflection will be the standard for achieving the highest quality of work for this assignment. Regardless of the format you choose for this assignment, your work should reference your detailed experiences (including the reading) in this course. As for length, if you were to use text as your format choice, a quality assignment would be a minimum of three (3) double-spaced pages. Of course, you may choose alternate formats that work best for you and your learning style. You may wish to consult your blog entries from the semester, weaving them into this concluding assignment.

Digital Textbook Chapter Assignment: Rubric.
How to Grow A Textbook
  • Start with an outline
  • Grab a virtual binding
  • Unpack and publish your traditional documents
  • Grab a few solid updating tools
  • Grab books for solid, more stable content
  • Grab databases and database essays, articles and chapters
  • Grab the right search tools
  • Grab your own presentations and shop for the best of others
  • Grab a couple of pathfinders
  • Grab some film
  • Grab some open source curriculum
  • Grab some student work
  • Grab some other stuff - see below

For Thursday, February 24

Read: Finish reading the Rethinking Education... text. Be prepared to discuss the main ideas of the book. There will be a guest teacher using the ideas in the book to develop a group video project.

Sharing: Post any interesting articles, videos, findings on the Internet, etc for next week to the February 24 page. (Optional)

Virtual Textbook Chapter: Continue as per our conversation.

Concluding Assignment: As outlined above.

Note about assignments: All blog entries, discussion forum posts, final projects and concluding assignments must be completed by Sunday, March 6 by 9:00 AM. Please link/upload all projects and concluding assignments on your wiki page (navigation - bottom left). I will provide you with substantive feedback and your final grade by that evening.

Next Meeting: Thursday, February 24
New Topic: Digital Video and Rethinking Education...